@masumitv.bsky.social and her new dino pal

You need to know the fact you feel "fake" after a lifetime of trying to gain approval or safety by "performing" for others isn't evidence that there's no authentic "you." It's evidence you never had the support or safety to explore & connect w/ the real you. But you ARE in there.

ほらごらん、今日はみっつのほうき星
ひとつひとつがここにきて
輝きながら静かに時を待つんだ
君の星もあるかもしれないね

Look, today there are three broom stars.
Each one comes here in its own time,
shining quietly as it waits.
One of them might be your star, too.

#illustration #poetry #kidlit #picturebook #fantasy

Sneak peak at the basic plot of my children's book, stay tuned

sky umbrella 🌙

How do I look? :3

似合ってる？

I don't know how much time you, or I, or anyone, has left on this planet. I don't actually know if it's "too late" to do or be anything.

Here's what I do know: whatever time we have left is too short to keep letting trauma kick our ass.

FR, better late to recovery than never.

my tiny son and his big japan adventure

Had to clamber over a barbed wire fence, rip my coat and trespass to get a photo of this folkloric monster pretending half-successfully to be a tree. I have no regrets.

🐈‍⬛🤍.

No writer is a failure until they are dead. Full stop. A career in writing is built over decades. It's built like a house, brick by brick, book by book. Not published yet? Emphasis on YET. Book not selling? It's not selling YET. You're only done when you quit.

And I don't think you're ready to quit

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I'm not good at anything. I dont do anything. I dont know anything. But I know this: Certain forces are out of control

Christmas in SPAAAAAAACE (but actually on Earth). It's an Animated made-for-TV Christmas special and it's now on RiffTrax. A Cosmic Christmas - now available! www.rifftrax.com/a-cosmic-chr...